A bug landed on my glasses while gardening, so I grabbed the 60mm Macro and Pixco extension tubes and shot it!
Both images are 15 shots focus stacked in camera – Olympus EM1 MarkII.
The photogenic bug was not harmed 🙂
The Pixco tubes were previously featured in this post.
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Neat! Were you wearing them when it landed?
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Yes, and wouldn’t budge! Interesting little beetle 🪲
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Yikessss creeeepy crawlieeeee
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It was purdy, but it just kept staring at me!
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An amazing photo, wow! ❤️
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Thanks John, it stayed nice and still for me 🙂
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I agree with the two previous comments – creepy to have the bug land right on your glasses, but great photo.
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It won the staring competition 😀 It was quite cute in a woody looking beetle way!
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What eyes it has!!!
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That is a super photogenic bug! When try to take a macro shot of a bug it normally just fly’s off!
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Thank you, It sat nice and still! There was a little bright green one too while I was taking this but that one kept moving about
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I’m not a fan of bugs but these are super photos! The detail is astounding!
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Thank you, my comment on your other comment on my other post was meant for this post. Confused? I am 😛
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😀
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horrifying!!
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What an incredibly closed-up shot!
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Thank you kindly 🙂
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Imaging stacking in the camera is an interesting function. The last Olympus I had was an E3 or something like that. I can’t remember now. I used to do a lot of image stacking with Helicon Focus, but I haven’t used it in years.
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The in camera stacking in the Oly is pretty good – if there’s no wind or the thing sits still for you. It produces a jpg, but also saves the individual jpg and RAW files. There’s been a few times where I’ve gone and batch edited the RAW files first, and then stacked them in Photoshop before final adjustment. Aside from the extra detail in RAW, the bonus is, you can fling the pics that have nothing in focus or any that aren’t lined up with the others.
In camera stacking is limited to .. I think 15 images. For greater depth of field, I sometimes take two or three stacks on a tripod at different focus and then combine them – or, I use just the bracketing mode which allows 999 images (from memory), but my aging computer won’t compute 999 images and stack them
Thanks for visiting Timothy 😀
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Is that a 4/3 or full-frame Oly? I loved the 4/3 format, but it didn’t do well in the darkness for me. So much of my critter photography is in low light.
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4/3 EM1 II. I’ve done a little bit of astro with it, there’s a recent post of the Aurora I took. I do find the sensor on the EM1 II is noisier (stuck pixels) on long exposures than both the EM5 II I had and the little Sony RX100 III. I’m not sure if it’s an issue with my camera. I’ve learnt to take the same exposure with the lens cap on, and then use that to remove them in Photoshop – but that’s a little different to low light animal photography.
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